Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have an increased risk for epilepsy during the whole
lifespan, but especially after age 40 years. The increase in the number of individuals with DS�…

This review discusses the various aspects of epilepsy in Down syndrome (DS) from the
perspective of paediatric neurology. DS is the most common genetic cause of mental�…

A disorder which affects 4 percent of children and 1-2 percent of the general population,
epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. The original edition of CP�…

Purpose: We analyzed databases on chromosomal anomalies and epilepsy to identify
chromosomal regions where abnormalities are associated with clinically recognizable�…

Of 737 patients with Down syndrome, newborn to 22 years of age, 47 had a history of at
least one seizure. Of those, 24 children had seizures with an identifiable etiology, usually�…

Most patients with epilepsy report that seizures are sometimes, or exclusively, provoked by
general internal precipitants (such as stress, fatigue, fever, sleep, and menstrual cycle) and�…

In Down syndrome (DS), epilepsy is frequent in all age classes and is recognized as a
significant cause of additional handicap and morbidity. Longer life expectancy has led to the�…

OBJECTIVES--To define the clinical characteristics of a group of patients with startle
provoked epileptic seizures (SPES). METHODS--Nineteen patients were identified during�…

Benign myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (BMEI) is an idiopathic disorder characterized by
spontaneous myoclonic attacks with onset in the first 2 years of life. We observed 6�…

Epilepsy is among the most common findings associated with chromosome aberrations,
particularly those involving autosomal chromosome imbalances. Most chromosome�…